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Room 101 (pronounced one-oh-one [7]), introduced in the climax of the novel, is the basement torture chamber in the Ministry of Love, in which the Party attempts to subject prisoners to their own worst nightmare, fear or phobia, with the objective of breaking down their final resistance. You asked me once, what was in Room 101.
1 Orwell's use of "101" 3 comments. 2 Page Order. 3 comments. 3 About the fate of Julia. ... 8 Origins of Room 101. 9 source for Mielke being an Orwell fan. 7 ...
An episode of Doctor Who, called "The God Complex", depicts an alien ship disguised as a hotel containing Room 101-like spaces, and also, like the novel, quotes the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons". [127] The two part episode Chain of Command on Star Trek: The Next Generation bears some resemblances to the novel. [128]
An episode of Doctor Who, called "The God Complex", depicts an alien ship disguised as a hotel containing Room 101-like spaces, and also, like the novel, quotes the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons". [4] The two part episode "Chain of Command" on Star Trek: The Next Generation bears some resemblances to the novel. [5]
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, thoughtcrime is the offense of thinking in ways not approved by the ruling Ingsoc party. In the official language of Newspeak, the word crimethink describes the intellectual actions of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable thoughts; thus the government of The Party controls the speech, the actions, and the thoughts of the ...
101. "My need to engage in homicidal behavior on a massive scale cannot be corrected but, uh, I have no other way to fulfill my needs." — Patrick Bateman, American Psycho (2000)
"1984" is still considered a fictional piece of literature to many, but a lot of what appeared in the book is now a reality. Like Big Brother: In "1984", there are TV screens and computer monitors ...
In the early twentieth century, before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Empire of Japan (1868–1947), in 1911, established the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu ('Special Higher Police'), a political police force also known as Shisō Keisatsu, the Thought Police, who investigated and controlled native political groups whose ideologies were considered a threat to the public order of the ...